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^ CROW1NG F?R A ^^TER ?NA 5 ^ ^ ^ |i|j UNIVERStTY^F^^^^H CAROLINA ~" "' COLUMBIA, 8. Q? FRIDAY, BEPTBMBER 29, 1933 __ Founded ll Unive Lectures On I ;? <> Baker Will Inaugurate Comes At A Result Of A Resohition Offered By J. Gordon Hughes For the first time freshmen will be given this year a course of lectures on the history and traditions of the University. President Baker will open the course with ah introductory talk. The first lecture will be delivered , October 4 by Dean Orin F. Crow of the School on Education on "Beginnings of the South Carolina College." At the December, 1932 session the board of trustees adopted a resolution offered by J. Gordon Hughes of Union, providing for establishment of the course. The lectures will be given at 10 a-, m. every other Wednesday in the chapel, and not in Drayton Hall, as heretofore announced. On.' such days they will replace the usukl chapel services for. freshmen. It is expected that the delivery of lectures will not exceed 45 minutes. All freshmen in the University are required to attend at least six- lectures of the course in each semester. No absences in excess of three each 'semester will be excused for any cause. A comprehensive one-hour examination on all the lectures will be held, and all freshmen will be required to take it Only honor eredits will be given for satisfactory attendance upon the course and satisfactory attainment on the examination. These credits will be awarded as follows: for excellent attainment, six honor credits; for good attainment, four1 credit!*; for fair attainment, two credits; for unsatisfactory attainment, no credits whatever. Attendance will be given due weight in the computation of credits. The regular chapel monitors will keep records of attendance on these lectures 8 as in the case of chapel services. The faculty committee to plan and arrange for the lectures was designated by the trustees and consists of President L. T. Baker, Dean J. Rion McKissick, Dr. E. L. <j?reen, Prof. H. C. Davis, and Prof. R. L. Meriwether. The schedule of lectures is: 1. Introductory Talk?President L. T. Baker. 2. Beginnings of the South Carolina College?Dean Orin F. Crow, October 4. . 3. Lands and Buildings of the. University?Dr. E. L. Green, October 18. (Continued on P?o? I; Column 2) Student Body Reaches Total 1294 Students Register; To Make Total Higher Than Expected Registration for this semester has | passed aH expectations according to Uni' versity authorities and an enrolment short of that of last year by only two. or 'three hundred is anticipated. As The Gamecock goes to press, 1294 students have enroled in the University for this , semester and the total is expected to rise to well above 1300 students before^ registration closes. In consideration of present conditions and the recent abolition of free tuition and the increase df all tuition fees the authorities feel that this toiat compares favorably with the first semester total . of 1664 last yeaf. Of the total enroled this year 878 are men and 4i0 women, a ratio of approximately two to one. Last year the ratio was approximately the same. University facilities will be taxed to the utmost to take care of this number as the budget as pasted by the board of trustees was framed with an anticipation of only 1000 students in the University, but &srthorities are optomistic and predict ? year of progress for the ! University. | ' ' ?v>; |1| ' irsity To Fresh Jniversity i > ' ' 1 ' " . Cut System 1 Has Change I Probations, Are Posted 1 Four Oats To Be Allowed; Senior 1 Honor Students Will Get , . Privileges With the beginning of this semester will be instituted the new class atten- i dance plan as passed by the faculty last s i semester. Under the new plan courses c I carrying one or two hours' work a week l< I will entail a maximum of two cuts a semester and other courses a maximum j ' of four cuts. 1 An innovation will be the doing away < with the old system of individual noti- t fication of probation and substituting in 11 its place a system of group notification. I! When any student has taken all cuts I? allowed in a course but one his name I s with the name of the course will be < posted in the chapel. If he then cuts I c in excess of the number of cuts allowed I he will be automatically dropped from u the course with a grade of "E". Tar-11 dies will count on the basis of half a I cut for each tardy. N Any student who has been dropped 1 from three classes for violating the ab-1 sence regulations will be suspended from I the University for the remainder of the semester. All notifications of suspen-1 sion from a class for violating the ab-1 sence rule will be sent to the parents of I the offending student _ . J The rule of absences is suspended In , case of death or marriage in the fam-11 ily, sickness of the student of over three i days' duration with a doctor's excuse, , or absences incurred while the student is 11 (Continued on' P*o? ?l Column ^ T ] Stoddard Gets Master's Degree | Former Carolina Baseball Captain I Graduates From Maasachsetts 1 Tech < I Robert J. Stoddard, '29, was graduated , from the Massachusetts Institute of 1 Technology, last June, with the degree L of master of science in civil engineering. J i He was able to get this degree in only one year's residence. Stoddard is the son of Dr. James A. Stoddard of the University faculty and Mrs. Stoddard. He married Miss Harriett Baker, daughter of President Baker. I While attending the University, Stod- ( dard was very active in campus affairs. I ( He was a member of Kappa Sigma, Om- j. ricon Delta Kappa, and Phi Beta Kappa. He was also on the football and base- I ^ ball teams, being captain of the latter in his senior year. L Silent Period Begins Saturday Silent period * for men begins at 12 o'clock Saturday night, and pledging will take place Monday at 7 p. m. in the chapel, ruled the Pan-Hellenic council I in its meeting in the Law Building, Tuesday afternoon. All bids must be in by I 12 o'clock Friday evening. Last year's rushing; and pledging fules | were re-enacted in full. During the si- < lent perfod, fraternity men and rushccs are not to converse at all until the bidding is announced Monday night, at which i time the fraternities will gather in their pledget. The new officers elected at the meetj ing are president, Adtrian Spears; vicepresident, Archie Beatty; secretary-treasurer, Rand Johnson. Speari is a Pi | Kappa Phi. Beatty is a Sigma Nu, and | Johnson a Pi Kappa Alpha. The newly-elected dance committee is Composed of Frank CHbbe>, Dave Ellison, and Baynard Whaley. tyi.V,,; '% Seeks men r History, Players To 1 Start Soon - I s Dean Gets Manuscripts * iVill Announce Season's Program * In Future; Mrs. Dean To c Direct Danoers 1 - j The Palmetto Players, student dra- t natic organization of the University will { ioon launch their fifth successive season >f play producing, Mr. William Dean, ] lirector, recently announced. j Mr. Dean, who recently arrived from ( i trip to New York, brought several | manuscripts with him from the John , Golden, and another by Owen Davis, au- \ hor of Jezebel, in which Tallulah Bank- . lead is now appearing in New York. | Several other manuscripts are expected 5 uid the season's plays will be selected is soon as they have been perused. Most >f the plays are new ones from the pens ( >f American authors. * In addition to the major productions , i number of student productions will be presented. ! Chapel Seats To , Be Listed Soon Students Will Be Allowed Five J Outs, And Will Not Be Notified Of Probation Chapel assignments for the first semester will be posted Saturday jn the ( obby of the chapel and all students will i i>e responsible for chapel attendance be- ? ginning Monday. It must be remem- : bered that if a student does not find t his name on one list he should be sure ? to consult the list for the other chapel i period. Five chapel cuts will be allowed each 1 semester this year and no individual < notification of probation will be issued. Instead each Wednesday will be posted 1 the list of all students having four cuts. Corrections of this list must be made at < the registrar's office before the after- ] noon of the Saturday following the date ] upon which the list of absences was ] posted. Otherwise the absences reported < will be presumed to be correct. *r. a. o. Magazine To Appear Soon "The Expurgated Nuthber" of The Carolmiati, campus monthly magazine, is , coming out about the 15th of October, according to James M. Black, editor. | It will be mostly humorous, and will < launch its appeal directly to the students, < striving to maintain and 'add to the E>opularity it held all last year. ( Anyone wanting to work on the mag- i izine will report to The Carolinian of- ] fice at four o'clock -Friday evening. * Historic Textt BePlac A valuable book has come into the t possession of the University recently in I a copy of "Political Economy" by ex- j President Thomas Cooper of th<J Uni- I versity. The book was the property of ( one Ilig Coleman and is dated Decern- t ber 18, 1837 and was donated by Mrs. i Charlotte Wiengs DeHag of Moncks I Corner, a descendant of the original pos- j sessor. I The book was originally written in < full form by the president and when the < need for a text book in his political < economy class became felt he abridged it and used it as a text bock. , It may be remembered that under I President Cooper the University, then I s Nev .1 . . <V\ ' Al. D. Pi Loses I Bid Privileges 3y Pan-Hellenic Ban I Charge With Illegal Rushing I ( During Silence Period; Appeal Reported Loss of bidding privileges for one emester was the punishment meted out 1 o the Alpha Delta Pi sorority as a re- ; ult of charges of illegal rushing which i >rought up against the group in a re- h :ent meeting of the Women's Pan-Hel- < enic council. It is understood that the 1 wrority has appealed the decision to s he faculty committee on< fraternities i rnd sororities. . I j The code of rules/ passed by the PanHellenic council, under which the soror- 11 ty rushing at the University is carried < >n this year provides for a silence pe- 11 riod from the opening of the University 1 until Friday, October 6, during which ) :ime sorority girls were forbidden to < ?peak to new girl students. It is this < regulation that the A. D. Pi group is 1 accused of having broken. The charges were brought against the ' lorority at a regular meeting of the I! council by Miss Eleanor McCall, coun- I' rfl representative from the Pi Beta Phi I> sorority. The charge alleged that a new ' student, Miss Miriam Lander, visited the [ (Continued on ?? Column 1) I All "B" Senlors Given Reward] Fifty-Six Seniors Allowed Voluntary Attendance By Faculty Ruling Fifty-six University seniors have been I' riven voluntary attendance to classes ' iccording to a recent announcement. The ' iward came to all those seniors having I' m average of "B" for all work done in he University and was made in compli- I > mce to regulations passed by the facjlty last year. I Attendance is voluntary to those on ] he list except that in no case shall the :lass attendance fall below 75 per cent. The following are those listed as enitled to voluntary attendance: i M. Hester Adams, R. C. Arlington, julie Belser, W. W. Bradley, Robert Meredith Brown, J. H. Burckhalter, J. F. Burgess, Gertrude Burrows, Daisy Bello Butler, Ruth W. Carter, Katherine ! Cathcart, Dena Citron, Fannie R. Coop- |' (Cofitlnuod on Page 4} CoTurmTT)" B. I. O. I i Berths Open On Gamecocki An opportunity for all students inter- , csted in assisting with the publication of , The Gamecock, University weekly, has I \ aeen extended members of the freshman :lass and new students by W. B. King, I ( ;ditor. ( Those who wish to take advantage of I i his opportunity are requested to report j" 0 The Gamecock office in the Extensio Building, next Monday, October 1, at 1:30 for further information. Kx>kTo ed In Library 1 " j the South Carolina College, was the . first college in the country /to institute ; 1 chair of political economy. It was , largely through the influence of Presilent Cooper, who was considered an au- ; hority on this subject and one of the nost brilliant minds in the nation, tliat ;his chair was instituted. He considered , it a necessary move in order to educate . the young men of the state in the the- , >ry of sound government and so important did he deem it that he took the :hair himself. This book will be placed in the South 1 Carolinian section of the University It- < brary and wilt be open to inspection by < the public. t YCL - ? ' , D V DU1 Begin Drive For Stadium Seek Aid From Alumni Construction To Begin Immediately Upon Purchase Of Lot; To Seat 18,000 With a municipal stadium suitable for :he staging of University football games ilmost within sight, an intensive drive for funds with which to buy the lot on which the proposed stadium will be looted is now being conducted among the alumni of the University arid hopes ire entertained that the money will be raised within the next ten days, according to B. A. Early, alumni secretary. The proposed stadium will be built from funds borrowed by the City of Columbia from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and will be located on the Taylor property at the State Fair grounds. The stadium will be of concrete and steel construction and will ac:ommodate 18,000 spectators with room for unlimited increase in its sire. All arrangements have now been made except for the purchase of the lot. As soon as the money for the lot is procured construction will be commenced but it is believed that the stadium will not be completed until some time in December, too late to play any game there tltis year. Negotiations concerning the construction of the stadium have been carried on all summer but it is believed now that the commencement of the work is only a matter of time. The question of the validity of such a loan from the R. F. C. was carried to the Supreme Court where J it was upheld and .immediately plans were drawn up and the plans approved !>y the R. F. C. engineers. Tentative jids for the construction have been let >ased upon the University alumni's purrhasing the lot. The cost of construction will be fixed it $80,000. This money will be bor(Continued on P?o? 4; Column ) Burglars Enter McKissick Home rhree White Boys Steal Quantity Of Clothing And Destroy Preserved Food Entering the home of Dean McKissick of the school of journalism sometime during the month of August three small white boys carried off a quantity of clothing and other valuables as yet undetermined and destroyed large quantities of canned and preserved foods. The full extent of the valuables has not yet been fully checked but it i& known that they carried off several pairs of shoes and other clothes and several medals and other momentos belonging to Mr. and l^rs. McKissick The boys entered the kitchen and opened and destroyed a large quantity sf canned and preserved foods, strewing much of it upon the floor and leav(CorTtTnued on P*u# ?; Column 1) Infirmary Has Many Visitors The Infirmary has been quite busy so far this semester. Many have been treated for their aliments. Earl Clarey, who suffered from an acute attack of appendicitis was treated. Dana Henderson was confined to the Infirmary after a tonsil operation. Allie McDougall received treatment for a broken nose. Dan Pendarvis has just recovered from an attack of malaria. Tom Craig was cared for after a tooth extraction. Grayson Wolfe was in the Infirmary with a sprained ankfe. Among others confined were Harry Hamilton and Milton Kitching. All freshmen 'and new students are required to have, a medical examination. No credit for work will be given until these examinations have been made. A fee of $2 will be charged all students who haven't been examined by Sep***** <30. ldings Public Works Is Medium Negotiations Underway President Baker Describes Present Condition Critical In Attiring- AM Hoping to profit by the public works program approved by Congress at its last session, the University authorities have sent a request to the governor's advisory board to approve an application for money to construct two new buildings on the campus and do other extensive construction and repair wprk. If the negotiations are successful two new buildings will be constructed on the "old" campus, one just east of Rutledge and immediately in front of the law building and one just east of DeSaussure and in front of the student activities building. One of the proposed buildings would be used to house the administration and also various student activity offices. It is also planned to locate there a chapel capable of seating the entire student body. The other would be used to house the schools of commerce and journalism and the department's of sociology, Bible and economics. Money was also requested to renovate the central heating plant and the infirmary, to re-roof several of the buildings, to build an addition to the library and to make other, repairs. President Baker describes the condition faced as critical and said the construction asked was necessary for the safety of the students of the University. The need for a central building to house the administration he described as especially urgent and pointed out the hazard of continuing operations in the old extension building, which has been judged unsafe by consulting engineers. If the proposed buildings are constructed the extension building will be removed, he stated. He described conditions in the library and infirmary as crowded and pointed out the extensive damage done to the foundations of the latter building by decay and termites. The need for a new building to house classrooms, he pointed out is shown by the fact that at present the departments of economics, sociology, and Bible and the schools of journalism and commerce are housed in buildings judged not safe from a fire standpoint, to house such a large number of students. The administration's request was sent to a board appointed by governor Blackwood to consider requests by state institutions for public works money. If it (Continued on Page 5; Column 3) Greeks Locate For This Year N$w Rules By Faculty Requires Responsible Person In Each House In accord with a recent faculty ruling thirteen of the fifteen social fraternities on the campus have secured the services of matrons or house masters. The other two fraternities have moved to the campus. Three of the chapters have matrons. They are Alpha Tau Omega (Mrs. Abrams), Kappa Alpha (Mrs. Abbergotti), and Pi Kappa Alpha (Mrs. Washington Clark). The other groups have responsible men in residence. Bru Boineau, former football star, is house master for the Sigma Alpha Ep? silon chapter. Alpha Beta has secured the services of Dr. E. T. Bonn of the history department. James Hicks, teacher of French at Columbia High School, is staying at the Sigma Chi house. Bland Hammond has been retained by the Sigma Nu chapter.. Only three of the diapters have retained the houses they occupied ' last year. They are: Alpha Beta, Sigma Chi, and Sigma Nu. Maxcy Gregg Park has claimed four of tli^d|M^i?ei^Sigma,